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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Moves
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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